Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nowhere have I been presented with so many extraordinary opportunities for startlingly fresh and original material for radio , ’ he says of Greenland , where he borrows a cassette and goes out recording ‘ wild track ’ ( a technical term that he expects us to know , meaning the sound background you hear when the broadcaster mercifully shuts up . ) |
| 2 | But will I been seen as a museum piece by some ? |
| 3 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
| 4 | Had I been sent for much earlier I would have tried to turn the baby — but now … it 's too late . |
| 5 | What have I been criticized for at work ? |
| 6 | Why have I been treated in such a cowardly and despicable manner ? ’ |
| 7 | This one er what 's , what 's going on , he said well what I been called for |
| 8 | Had I been called upon to exercise my discretion , I would have given particular consideration to the great disturbance that I have found the residents suffer . |
| 9 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 10 | Have I been reduced in size ? |
| 11 | This is where I been going to . |
| 12 | Had I been allowed to puddle around on my own , people today might curl their lips at Faldo 's approach . |
| 13 | What have I been praised for at work ? |
| 14 | Had I been infected by my owl ? |
| 15 | It were bad where erm Have I been talking in that thing all time ? |
| 16 | Had I been told at his birth that he was not ‘ normal ’ I would probably have hoped he would have died before being taken home from hospital . |
| 17 | ‘ I am the mother of a spastic child but had I been told before his birth that my son would be handicapped I would have asked for an abortion . |
| 18 | I reckon I should nearly be home by now — I been walking for ages . |
| 19 | I reckon I been walking for hours now . |
| 20 | And proud too , cos blimey , I been walking for ages and when I get back home she 'll think I been real clever to find my own way back , and I ai n't got a yellow card or nothing . |
| 21 | This should not suggest that my wife and I are cut from the American kind of Anglophilic chintz that may of you like to poke fun at . |
| 22 | Each day , when Tod and I are done with the Gazette , we take it back to the store . |
| 23 | Aycliffe and I are trying for a way to have the will stand . |
| 24 | My wife and I are staying at the Danieli , but she 's not been feeling well and urged me to take up the offer of an observer 's seat here . ’ |
| 25 | Bob and I are progressing as a piano/clarsach duo , and of course some of the accompaniments to his songs tax me to the limit , or have to be vetoed altogether . |
| 26 | You and I are gon na recommend Klepner . |
| 27 | Yeah Alan and I are gon na go through the details . |
| 28 | I there is a small difference of course , the C E C did say it , but there is dif different negotiating procedures as you 're , you are aware but Mike and I are talking about that and I 'm sure we can overcome it . |
| 29 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 30 | ‘ You think Miller and I are linked in some way ? |